Allies, Contacts, Enemies & Rivals

Allies, Contacts, Enemies & Rivals

Allies, Contacts, Enemies & Rivals is a sourcebook of non-player characters for use with the current edition of Traveller from Mongoose Publishing. Inside you'll find a wide range of NPCs, all ready for use in your game or campaign.

Allies

Whether your player characters need assistance, or you need an NPC for a character's background, these allies will help!

Contacts

Do your player characters need some information, or somewhere cheap to stay? These contacts can help, but sometimes at a price!

Enemies

Need a bad guy (or gal!) to get in the way of the player characters' plans? Here are some that fit the bill!

Rivals

Ready to out-gun, out-run and out-trade your player characters, these rivals can make the player characters' lives more interesting!

Individual Non-Player Characters

Six unique individuals, suitable for use as patrons or random encounters. Each is fully detailed, including skills, life events, mishaps, and background information.

Psionic Tactical (PsiTac) Team

For graduates of the Psionic Institutes, membership of a Psionic Tactical (PsiTac) Team is often the only way to use their abilities legally. PsiTac Teams are responsible for for tracking down rogue Psions and Wild Talents.

Starship Crews

The crew of the Free Trader 'Olathe Bypass': Led by Captain Satar O'Brien, the hard working crew of the Olathe Bypass ply the spacelanes in their search for the next big deal. Also includes company information on the Olathe Trading Company.

The crew of the Detached Duty Scout/Courier 'Sirocco': The crew of the Sirocco carry out freelance surveying and trouble-shooting missions, as well as detached duty missions for the Scouts.

The crew of the Mercenary Cruiser 'Barracuda': The crew of the Merc Cruiser Barracuda transport the Stingray platoon across space on their missions. The Barracuda and her Marines are ready for deployment in your Merc scenario or campaign!

'Stingray' Marine Striker Platoon

A complete platoon of 37 battle-hardened Marines, lead by Captain Hannah 'Lucky' Snell, ready to use as NPCs.

A truly excellent resource for the Traveller GM, this suppliment is professionally produced and well-organized. The NPC characters are well-thought out and provide plenty of adventure hooks and plot points. It is well-worth the price. [...]

This is a really good collection of ready-made, fully fleshed-out NPCs. Specific to Mongoose Traveller, it adapts easily to other variants. Similarly, it is your prerogative as a GM to tone down or flesh out character specifics, but the NPCs presente [...]

Really great collection of NPCs, many of them collected as crews (traders, survey team, mercs) and, in one case, an entire marine platoon. I really like the look of the Psionic Tactical (PsiTac) Team. Enhanced by the exceptional typography and layout [...]

Simply put, variety balanced with connecting themes. Starting with allies a GM can give a group help, hindrance and possibilities with minor effort. Character profiles offer enough insight into the various characters possibilities while the portraits [...]

Populating my settings with interesting non-player characters has always been
a problem for me, mainly because I have a tendency to become repetitive with
my descriptions and to offer the players only "more of the same" instead of new
origina [...]

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